Jamaica | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Jamaica
Records
63
Source
Jamaica | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.58 1960
5.446 1961
5.378 1962
5.509 1963
5.684 1964
5.747 1965
5.83 1966
5.847 1967
5.817 1968
5.748 1969
5.638 1970
5.5 1971
5.292 1972
5.029 1973
4.756 1974
4.499 1975
4.218 1976
4.115 1977
3.965 1978
3.839 1979
3.733 1980
3.643 1981
3.559 1982
3.477 1983
3.394 1984
3.308 1985
3.223 1986
3.142 1987
3.069 1988
3.003 1989
2.854 1990
2.906 1991
2.952 1992
2.962 1993
2.939 1994
2.881 1995
2.674 1996
2.659 1997
2.594 1998
2.447 1999
2.21 2000
2.173 2001
2.149 2002
2.13 2003
2.127 2004
2.063 2005
2.069 2006
1.908 2007
1.89 2008
1.864 2009
1.742 2010
1.728 2011
1.696 2012
1.636 2013
1.569 2014
1.588 2015
1.516 2016
1.44 2017
1.388 2018
1.37 2019
1.358 2020
1.352 2021
2022
Jamaica | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Jamaica
Records
63
Source